Study area 2013 wetland system extents

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 wetland system extent by study area
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Study area	Total area (ha)	Wetland area by system								Total wetland area (ha)
		artificial and highly modified	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified)	lacustrine (natural)	lacustrine (slightly modified)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	1,359,762	4,281	23,518	165	2,883	510	45,861	627	15,605	93,450
Cairns Urban	62,327	500	4,573	165		4	494	5	495	6,237
Great Sandy Strait	1,218,935	3,551	15,353		2,849	393	33,144	347	14,750	70,386
Pumicestone Passage	78,501	230	3,591	< 1	34	113	12,223	275	360	16,826

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of study areas.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.